From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Re: If Injuns Weren't Included How Were Hispanics Who Weren't Even a
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:03:18 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-02-13 19:56, AlleyCat wrote:
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> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:15:09 -0800, Alan says...
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>> ...you are a citizen.
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> I am.
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> You're not.
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> The author(s) excluded everyone BUT ex-slaves.
No....
That's simply not true.
If it WERE true it would have to be in the language of the amendment.
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> WHY did they write the 14th?
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> The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States
> Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the
> Reconstruction Amendments. Usually considered one of the most
> consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal
> protection under the law and was PROPOSED IN RESPONSE TO ISSUES
> RELATED TO FORMERLY ENSLAVED AMERICANS following the American Civil
> War. - wikipedia
Sorry.
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>
> "Fourteenth Amendment, amendment (1868) to the Constitution of the
> United States that GRANTED CITIZENSHIP AND EQUAL CIVIL AND LEGAL
> RIGHTS TO AFRICAN AMERICANS AND SLAVES who had been emancipated
> after the American Civil War." - Britannica
>
> Simple, yet elegant.
>
> And true.
>
> Not one author was thinking about babies born to illegals.
Because at the time there WERE no illegals...
...but it doesn't change the meaning of the words of the amendment.